When we think too much about the opinions of others, we are letting them edit a book God has written.

Christ, in short, asks us to give everything, all our false redemption in the lifeboat, all our false ideas about who God is, all our trust in something other than God to redeem us. In so doing, we die to our broken natures in exchange for His perfect nature, and find unification with Him that will allow God to see us as one.

...she wanted God to make sense. He doesn't. He will make no more sense to me than I will make sense to an ant.

Great stories move through fear.

I'm just trying to make the point that the story we're telling ourselves is often very different from the story we're telling the people around us.

When we talk about the decline of the American family, I think we have to go back to the Industrial Revolution.

A story is a character who wants something and overcomes conflict to get it.